The Sun. — London, England, 1838-04-18 00:00:00

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY, -- The advantages which the partial opening of the London and Birmingham line offers to the public are greatly diminished by the incomprehensible want of a good understanding be tween the Directors of that line and those of the Grand Junc tion Railway. Most undoubtedly it is as much the interest of the proprietors of those two lines, as of the public, that every facility should be afforded by each for forwarding the passen gore by th e ot h er; b ut, from what we hear, the pr esen t ar angements might rath e r h ave b een ma d e w i th the view of trying how much of trouble, inconvenience, and delay, could be produced in transferring and forwarding passengers and their luggage. As the two lines precisely correspond in width of rails, the arrangement which common sense would seem to dictate would be, that, immediately on the arrival of a train at Birmingham, whether from Londo n or from Manchester and Liverpool, the car riages, with passengers intending to go forward, should be transferred from one line to the other, and that an engine should be ready to start with them, whether the time corre sponded with the ordinary hours of starting or not. For in stance,--the trains leaving London at half-past seven in the 111°1141 g, and which have hitherto generally reached Birming ham a little after four, ought to find an engine ready to pro ceed with them for Manchester and Liverpool without loss of time, and without any unnecessary delays on the road. As the a rrangements are now conducted, the passengers are de layed from half -past four until seven o'clock, and do not reach is Manchester and Liverpool until half-past eleven at night, which an exceedingly inconvenient time of arrival. On the other hand,, the p assengers w h o leave Manchester and Liverpool at half -past six in the morning, and arrive at Birmingham at eleven, find n o conveyance forward unt i l one, and are thus d etained, to their great annoyance, two hours, at a period Which is t oo ear l y for dinner, and when the greater part of them will have no means of usefully or agreeably oecupy ant; their ti me. G reat i nconvenience is also experienced at present in transferring the luggage, though we should ima gine that nothing would be easier than to have it packed in I rne one carr i age w hi c h could b e moved at once from one she to t h e other, and carried forward without requiring the I'Lightest attention or a n x i e ty on t h e part o f t h e passengers. If the number of persons arriving at Birmingham by one line, and intending to proceed by the other, were small, such in conveniences would not be of any very serious consequence ; bu t when these persons form, as they now do, a very large proportion o f t h e ent i re number of passengers, they have cer t ly a gr ea t r i g h t to complain that every practicable atten _lpn is n ot pa i d to their convenience by the two Companies. With whom rests the blame of a want of cordial co-operatioz— whether with the Directors of the London and Birmingham, or of the Grand Junction, or with both we cannot pretend to Say ; but the bad consequences of a continuance of the evil will , be severely felt, not only by the public, but by the share holuers of the two Companies and we trust that the latter (if the existing misunderstanding * should continue) will promptly take the matter up, and require the Directors of each to con sent to some fair and reasonable arrangement, which shall at "cc promote the convenience of the public, and prevent a needless and, gratuitous sacrifice of the interests of the pro prietors.,Manchester Guardian. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. ADVERTISEMENT EXTRAORDI- NARY. " You have of these t Meertisements ' that have more in them than you'd think,"— Winter's Tale. The existence of a fifth estate, the important one of " auc tiondom," has already been cleverly demonstrated in the b parres of the " New Monthly Magazine ;" it is theref ore unneces sary to dwell upon it now. But the illustrations of that estate are sometimes so worthy of notice, that it would be an act of injustice both to the public, and to the monarch of the newly created sovereignty, Mr. George Robins, were we always to pass them by unheeded. We have often been tempted by many eloquent p assages to break through the compelled restraint under which we have hitherto shrowded ourselves ; but considerations of delicacy have as often withheld us, lest it should have been thought that we were only lending our voices to the venal cry of auc tion-puffery from some motive induced by local attraction. I n the present instance, however, feeling ourselves quite clear in our great office," we throw off our customary em barrassment. The subject of the present advertisement—one certainly not among the least ornate issued by the Chief of Oppidan orators —was introduced to the discerning eyes of " an enlightened British public" on the evening of Saturday, the 24th ult., in The Sun newspaper of that day ; a mode of introduction every way worthy of the luminous style in which it is couched, and the climate to which it refers. It is thus headed : IN TUSCANY. A SPENDID VILLA AND OFFICES, WITHIN 34 MILES OF FLORENCE, 18 FROM SIONA, ESPECIALLY ADAPTED TO ENGLISH COMFORT. EXTENSIVE GARDENS AND A DOMAIN OF THIRTEEN HUNDRED ACRES, OF WHICH A LARGE PORTION IS UNCULTIVATED, AMID THE MOST SPLENDID WOODLAND SCENERY. And then succeeds the usual exordium, in which the private virtues of the " respected proprietor" are set forth as an ad ditional inducement to the public purchaser of this "singularly elegant Italian villa," in a land which we are accustomed to consider the parent clime of elegance. Then follows the na tural (yet parliamentary) modesty of the worthy auctioneer, who, in very measured phrase, " invokes, with all possible anxiety and humility, that the reader will".—.what does the present reader suppose? Trust to his description? No such thing I but " avail himself of ocular demonstration to arrive at the desired conclusion. That is to say, make a journey to Tuscany, "within thirty-four miles of Florence," at this very agreeable season of the year, in order to satisfy his own mi n d wether Mr. George Robins is an improvisatore or not. That merit is, however, universally conceded to him, and yet, despite this general knowledge of the fact, we fear post horses will be for some time in demand along the " high Italian road," to visit " this Italian paradise," as it is most felicitously termed. The future purchaser is reminded that " Tuscany is the most favoured of all the Italian states ;" and presuming that ho is a valetudinarian at least, if not a severe disciple of the school of Sir A. Agnew, he is told that "re ligious intolerance and an English winter are alike strangers to the land." The juxta-position of phrases is curious, leaving one to infer either that frost and fanaticism go hand in hand in our own country, or that Italy is alike exempt from both. If this be the fact, it would indeed be singularly " difficult to find a parallel case to the property under review." The moral advantages having been discussed, we come next to the natural ones, amongst which that of scenery pre dominates, and here we arrive at a conclusion which may, perhaps, sound oddly in the ears of the admirers of Lindley Murray, however gratifying to the admirers of nature. The text informs us that the " climate is opposed to all the incle mency of England," and that the "roses are blooming through. out the fearful winter that has passed ; " a passage which ine vitably recalls to our recollection the celebrated roads con structed by the famous General Wade ; and it is not improbable that such roads now lead to this Tuscan gem, which once called forth the poet's eulogy " before they were made." After the roses come next, in natural succession, " its limpid waters and meandering streams ; an amphitheatre of lofty hills ; adorned by the monarch of the forest, in countless num bers, with valleys teeming in wild fertility." A description in which we are at a loss which most to admire, the beauty of the scenery or the " concatenation accordingly" by which it is set forth. 2V t ,,E WMARKET CRAVEN MEETING, T UESDAY. oe Coffee -Room Stakes of 50 soya. each, for fillies, Bst. 41b. each, out of mares that never produced a winner before the C raven 41 Meeting,' 1836. D.D.M.7 Subs. ? 1, Batson s f. by Reveller, out of Acacia • Robinson 1 folonel Peel's f. Wave, by Defence, out of Versatility Robinson Vansitt art ' s br. f. by Humphrey Clinker, out of Magawiska dfi "-„or Albemarle's ch. f. Masquerade, by Alamelake Duke Richmond's f. Guava, by he Colonel, out of Gulnare 5 ~..Betting -11 to Bon Wave, 4to 1 against Mr. Batson's filly. , 7 , 0 t 1 4 . by a length. 'ateb, 200/ , h. ft. T.Y.C.—Mr. Thornhill's Saintfoin, Bst. 11)01,b. (Conollbeat the Duke of Rutland's f. by Hawker, dam Pan, out of ) ale Royal, Bst. Won by two lengths. Fifth Tuesday's Riddlesworth Stakes of 200 sovs. each, h. ft. ; for three yrs old ; colts, Bst. 71b ; fillies, Bst. 41b. Ab. AI. Untried stallions and mares allowed 31b; if both, Mb. 6 Subs. Lord Exete' s f. Mecca, by Sultan, out of Miss Cantley...Darling 1 Coloner„Peel's gr. c.'St. Vitus, by Bedlamite, out of Fille de Joie 2 Betting -6 to 4on Mecca. Won by a length. Tho Oatlands Stakes of 50 sovs• each, h. ft., and only 10 soya. ft. if declared on or before the 30th of December. D. I. The 10 So y , . fts. t o go to the owner of the second horse. 9 Subs., four of whom d ec l ared. Lord LordSuffield's Cowboy, 4 yrs, Bst ...Pavia 1 Lor d Exeter's Corban, 4 yrs , B st. 121 b •,1?!rr • Wilson's Quick s il ver , 4 yrs, 7st. 1 Ilb 3 •alr• Osbaltleston's Me Mac, 4 yrs, 7st. 51b I httiog-7 to 4 s.gst Quicksilv o I agst Corban, to 1 agst %.,owboy ; 4to 1 apt Alic Mac. Won t by three lengths. Match, 100/., h. ft. R.M.—Duke of Rutland's c. by Buzzard, out of Flame's dam, received forfeit from Lord Southampton's e. by Hercules, out of Rarity, Bst. 71b. eac h . Match, 1001, h. ft. T. rville 's Ospre Bst. 71b, agst Lord Chest erfield's Anchorit G e, e Bst. 31b. y (dead), Further particulars of Monday's Races. Craven Stakes.—Redshank, Daedalus, Paganini, and Men tiizabal laid together in front to the bushes, the latter having a slight lead ; here he dropt off, and Redshank went a-head, Daedalus and the Bodach Glas lying next, but without reaching, him —the odd horse winning easily by two lengths. Ruby was fourth, Paganini fifth, Hock sixth, Mendicant seventh, and ' i lendizab a l l as t, t h e space between each being so wide that the ` J udge placed the whole lot. After the race 9,000/. was laid vi lt against Da3dalns for the Derby, at 1,000 to 15. therhandi ca p, Ab. M.—Skilleygolee m a d e p l ay f or a b out h a lf distance, the ruck lying up ; Seth then took it up, de be.ated a desperate rush made by Scamander (ridden by Ro dti4en) at the bushes, and won cleverly by a length. Avon, " l bat, and Skill eygo l ee ran i n a f ter the second, but were too close together to permit of either being placed. v ilaildi eeP, T. Y. C. `Arsenic made play throughout, and won 6 ' 'ry fine race by a head ; Castaway a good third. Cormla. I lus caused some false starts, and bolted immediately after the lot got off. Riddlesworth. _.2 to I was taken to some amount, but at the close was off ere d currently on Co b we b . Th e S urpr i se colt eas y b the out th e work to the T. Y. C. post, where the crack took e lead fr om hi m, made the rest of the running, and won very y two len gt h s. H e was i mme di ate l y c h r i stene d Phoenix. b y l6° 11 sovs. Stakes Romania made all the running, and won , r h al e f a length after — a fine race with Morella. fall Heath, notw i thstanding the violence of the wind and a Tot snow, w as very well attended. r I I the ev en i ng the ring was formed, as usual, in the Coffee- F" e nt yard, but business was very dull. Phoenix obtained no arhat credit for winning, some insisting that his action was his °ti red, and that he was " extended," and all agreeing that favour were were very inferior. Bamboo was in considerable and, s',Znd sev era l b ets were made on Amato, Drum Major, Buili o e `u• N ot hi ng said about Nonplus, The Early Bird, or 1 abount I Pre v i ous to the race offers were made to take 15 to 1 4 to I on, b ut no mention of him afterwards. Offers to bet 7 taAst Alemdar, and take 18 to 1. Closing prices : toll agst Lord Jersey's Plicenix—taken 1 agst Ld G. Bentinck's Grey Momus—taken and after 11ards off ere d to 1 agstw Lord S u ffi e ld' s B am b oo 12 t o I 14 to 1 a agst t Mr. Bl and ' s Young Rowton ,5 g Lord Exeter's Alemdar _ 0 _ too 1 agst Mr. Forth's C onservator—take 30 to I 1 agst Lord Westminster's Richard Roe—taken and after-I wards offered 40 to 1 agst Air. W. Edwards's Drum-major—taken 40 1 to 1 agst Lord Stradbroke's Beggarman—taken 55 to to 1 agst Sir G. Heathcote's Amato—taken 200,1) 1 agst L or d G. Bentinok ' s Seth—taken • to 5 agst Alr. Thornhill's Surprise colt—taken f, i t tt itivAt.s.—D ukes of Portland and Rutland, Lords Exeter, te .l l en, Suffield, Alb emar l e (and Countess), Verulam, Cbes s,!ueld (and Countess) Stradbroke, Lichfield, J. Fitzroy, Villiers,v 'fliers, March, W. Le ' nnox • Honourables A. Villiers, W. nous G. Anson' (and Lady), G. Byng (and v ad Y Agnes), F. ' Berkeley, G. Berkeley, and General Gros reel Sir S. and Lady Graham, Colonel and Lady Alice ,'el ; Messrs. C. Wilson, Greville, Batson, Irby, Etsvall, .`-40Mrnelin, Worrell, Payne, Elwes, Thornhill, Thornhill, J, 11 P., J. Stanley, Joseph Hume, M.., Waddington, Newton, Campbell, T. A. Smith, Delme Radcliffe, Hungerford, B. Sheridan, Bayly, V. Dolphin, Hawker, Hunter, Port tam', Heywood, Houldsworth, Fox, S. Stanley, Ssc. It would be an act of positive injustice to the " worthy" and modest auctioneer were we to omit the apology which succeeds the above glowing description:— " Independently of this very imperfect sketch of its manifold attributes, which soar far above the humble pretensions of the writer to describe in adequate terms, the worthy possessor has discovered no inconsiderable tact in having united not only the elegance and coziness (if such a word may be permitted), of an English fire-side, as opposed to its comfortless contempora ries, but adopting beside a system of rural economy, combined with the Italian system of agriculture, and a dairy in the En glish taste." We certainly congratulate "thy worthy possessor" on the " no inconsiderable tact" with which (heureusement we may be allowed to say) he has dovetailed " elegance and coziness" into each other; we only hope that this Italian snugness may not be a translation of the phrase " cose core" which we fear is but so, so r , cozines" is not, however, the sole merit of this desir able abode ; for if the tent in the fairy tale, which would suffice for an army of 50,000 men, and yet fold up, on occasion, and lie in the palm of the hand, the building possesses that expan sive and contracting power which will render it suitable alike to a large and small family. The " ingenuity" of the proprie tor has been taxed to produce this result ; and, as the adver tisement has it, " without this commentary it might appear a little astounding to know that there are eleven spacious rooms on each suite 40 feet by 24," &c. Astounding enough but the ingenuity is a little more astounding that can establish " a new married couple" or " a steady single old gentleman and his housekeeper" in this Castle of Otranto without finding themselves rather " overhoused." Add to this that there arc stabling for twelve horses, standing for four carriages, two acres of garden ground, and thirteen hundred more, which may be turned into gardens (being " still uncultivated,") and we think as fair a prospect exists of indulg ing the " dolce far niente" as ever was offered beaeath the glowing skies of Tuscany, unless, indeed, the proprietor's whole time should be absorbed in the agricultural process which is to produce like the land of promise, " corn, wine, and oil, in great abundance ; with fuel from the neighbouring forest to be had without end, and at no expense ;" of course not even the expense of carriage. " There are strong indications of mine rals to seduce those who aim at a large income ; and the econo mist who sojourns here will find a very moderate revenue equal to the legitimate expenditure of a splendid establishment." In short, " this is the true Eldorado after all," as young Raleigh said when he sacked the towns of Guiana, and much thanks do the British public owe to Mr. George Robins for the fortunate discovery which he has made. —Morning Herald. [Our satirical Commentator has made free with a word or two to help his illustration and joke. Mr. Robins's announce ment does not say, " Roses ARE blooming," his phrase runs thus,—" A climate opposed to all the inclemency of England, roses blooming throughout the fearful winter that has passed ;" this is quite true, throughout March the roses on the Lawn were in full bloom, and the Winter in Tuscany—has passed. —ED. Sun.] Miss Taylor is engaged at the Haymarket Theatre, but is unable to appear there until the close of Covent-garden, although, to use a technical phrase, she has been "shelved" there during nearly the whole of the present season. EAST SUSSEX BUNT RACES, MONDAt r. The Farmer's Stakes, consisting of a Silver Bowl, and the rest in specie, by subs. of 3 sovs. each, and 10 added by Captain Green, for the second; for horses the property of bona fide farmers, not thoroughbred, &c. ; four yrs. I Ist ; five yrs. 12st ; six yrs. and aged, 12st. 71b. The New Course heats. Gentlemen or farmers, residing in Sussex, riders. Nineteen subscribers. Ajr. Saxley's g. h. Agreeable, 5 yrs. Vr• Gilbert na. b. g. Leopold, by Robin Hood 0 2 CoTrevor na. gr . g A g it a ti on , by A co r n , 5 yrs. ....•• 2 0 d• Cra ven na. c h . g. C ock R o bi n, b y Th eseus , 4 yrs 3 dr °lonel Wyndham na. ch. m. Elizabeth, by Baryatis, 6 yrs 0 dr Several others started, but were not placed.—A good race. Etst Sussex Hunters' Stakes of S Sons. each, with 25 added 'V the Town, and 10 from the Fund for the second ; for horses that never won, are not thoroughbred, and have regularly hunted w ith Col one l G . Wyndham 's or the East Sussex hounds. The Course (two miles and a half) heats. Riders as above. oi bscribers. Alr se A . a su lley , 's gr. h. Agreeable, 5 yrs. ...(Mr. Coppard) 2 1 1 tonk sb. g. Tally-ho, by Harlequin,,6 yrs 1 2 2 fires n na. b. in. Multunt in Parvo, aged A s w A good race. tid ers eapstakes over the Two-years-old Course, heats, gentlemen J o h 4 ictwelve subscrib ers ), were won in two heats by b. g. King k)rit Johnston), Johnston), beating br. g. Waxy, ch. in. Winifred, and tlop others, easily. An j,, bo article appeared in the Observer relative to Sir trm Conroy rece i v i ng a memorial of gratitude from the e4 s nien of th e D uc h ess o f K ent. W e understan d it was al so i ll .° to the p r i nc i pa l ones , an d t h at t h e su b scr i pt i ons were ThiLunited, th at t h ey should on l y amount to 400 gu i neas. dr e :, m ark of respect was presented with the following ad of itin To Si r J o h n Conroy. B art. W e h ave t h e honour of h p u , sb g n gupon you, as the representatives of ninety tradesmen ac es 'Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, to request your e P t ance of thi s candelabrum, on which we have caused to to i s n u gr o o . en the express i on o f our grat i tu d e . I t i s presente d re spect ''r, not snore as a token of our personal esteem and ark i , than as a testimony of the ability, urbanity, kindness, hold, w i t h which you have so long d i rected the house tiets 4141 performed the important duties of the several situa tains 3 '.° 11 held un d er her Royal Highness's orders, during the Th e rit Y of our b e l oved and Most Gracious Queen Victoria. the cie..°! di ality exhibi te d b y all part i es i ntereste d h as ren d ere d tli stin uues of the C omm i ttee equally easy an d satis f actory, so kid ~ it et and u nanimous has been the expression of generous 01 € 1 , Neful feeling. towards you, Sir, that in the short space 11 . 1 ith 3 W eek, th e C ommittee have been able to b eg i n, and thus tilsrn',our acceptance, happily to execute the trust confined to --Aprill2, 1838. LCINDON AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—In consequence of the opening of the greater part of the London and Birmingham Railway, the journey from Liverpool and Manchester to London can now be performed in one day. Passengers who go from Liverpool and Manchester by the Grand Junction trains at half-past six in the morning will ar rive at Birmingham soon after eleven, and will have from that time till one o'clock for dinner or business, when the trains leave for London, where it is expected they will arrive soon after eight o'clock; and passengers leaving London by the half past seven trains will arrive in Liverpool or Manchester between nine and ten in the evening. The arrangements for the conveyance of the mails by the London and Birmingham line, we understand, will not be completed before the 7th of May, after which day the London bags will reach Liverpool about ten o'clock in the morning. —Liverpool Tinzes. POST COMMUNICATION BETWEEN LEEDS AND LONDON...--it is probable that in a few weeks, perhaps in a few days, the letters from London to Leeds will be brought by railway to Manchester, and thence by the Manchester and York mail to Leeds, so as to reach this town two hours earlier than at present. The London and Birmingham railway is now open for the whole distance except 37 miles; and the mail-bags will shortly be, if they arc not at present, forwarded by that conveyance,-_a locomotive engine being sent off at eight o'clock in the evening from London for that purpose. The letters will reach Manchester at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and in a few weeks or months, when the railway is completed, they wail ar rive at eight o'clock, or even earlier. The Leeds bag may then be forwarded by the York mail, which now leaves Man chester at nine in the morning, and reaches Leeds at a quarter past two. We hope the post-office surveyor will make ar rangements as speedily as possible for giving to Leeds this great advantage. To have two hours more for answering London letters and orders would be exceedingly valuable to this great manufacturing town. Bradford, Halifax, and Hud dersfield will be still greater gainers than Leeds, when the letters come by way of Manchester. —Leeds Mercury. HULL, LINCOLN, AND NOTTINGHAM RAIL IYA Y.—We learn that this railroad is now fairly afloat. Up wards of 200 shares were taken in twelve hours on Thursday last, and there have been hourly demands for them since. It MIS anticipated that in a few days they would all be disposed of. —Hull Observer. MANCHESTER AND SHEFFIELD RAILWAY.-011 Thursday last Mr. George Hadfield, attorney, and law clerk to the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Company, applied to Mr. Foster, at the New Bail ey , on behalf of that Company, for a Magistrate's certificate, th at the whole of the sum of 700,0001. required by their Act o f P arliament, had been sub scribed for. This having been proved by Mr. Hadfield, Mr. Foster gave a certificate to that effect. —Manchester Guardian. MURDER IN THE ISLE OD DOGS.--SECOND EXAMINATION OF THE PRlSON ERS.—Yesterd a y Thomas Scott, alias Paul, and Richard Tidy, excavators and labourers em ployed in loading and unloadi ng mu d barges on the banks of the Thames, were brought before Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Greenwood, at the Thames Police-office, for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of Duncan Crawford, an en gineer, on the Isle of Dogs, on Sunday, the 9th of April, 1837. After evidence had been adduced, the case was again adjourned. The arrangements for the conveyance of the mails by the London and Birmingham line, we understand, will not be completed before the 7th of May, after which day the Lon don bags will reach Manchester about ten o'clock in the morning.—Manchester Guardian. SUN, LoNnoi, VVEDNESbAN, APitif, 18, 4,;. IRELAND. (FROM OUR PRIVATE CORRESPONDENT. DUBLIN, APRIL 16. MR. O'CONNELL.-IMPORTANT MEETING. Mr. O'Connell, who arrived in Ireland upon Saturday, summoned his constituents to a public meeting this day, by the following card : " AGITATION. " Agitation is the price necessarily paid for liberty. " Merrion-square, April 16. " I request a meeting this day, at the ,Corn Exchange Great Rooms, of such friends of Ireland as are desirous of making practical arrangements for the effectual registry of the Liberal interest in the various counties, cities, and towns in Ireland. " DANIEL O'CONNELL, m.p.,, At two o'clock to-day the great room was crowded with citizens, though the day was stormy, and few would venture out upon a trifling inducement. Mr. Mansfield was called to the Chair ; upon which Mr. O'CoNNELL rose amid loud cheers, and said he con gratulated them heartily upon the victory that they and ho had achieved over the Orange faction of that city.—( Cheers.) It would have done their hearts good to have seen the coun tenance of West when the Committee was struck, and he saw all his hopes frustrated, and knew his thousands had been ex pended in vain.—( Cheers and laughter.) But the subject upon which he had called them together was to ensure many similar victories, and to take effectual means to forward the great principle of equal justice. At the last election the people had sent 73 Members to Parliament, who were pledged to advocate the cause of liberty ; but three of these had:been struck off by the decision of a Committee. In the case of Emmerson Tennent and Dunbar, the decision was so repug nant to justice that the Tories themselves would not defend it. The decision in the Kinsale case was ludicrous, but it was a further proof of the necessity of a tribunal uncon nected with the House to try controverted elections. In Tralco Mr. Maurice O'Connell had been seated ; the absurd decision of Mr. M'Keon having been reversed. Putting Mr. Mahoney and Mr. Maurice O'Connell against each other, there was a balance of two in favour of the Spottisvroode gang. So much for Election Committees. But he was now in the progress of an experiment, whether Ireland was to be governed by a combined Parliament of the empire, or a domestic Legislature. He tried the experiment honestly, but he did not believe it could succeed. At present there virtually existed no Union between the countries, because there was no community of interest. There was, to be sure, a parchment Union, but it would soon be a cobweb one if equal justice was not done; while there was a difference in the eye of the law and the Legislature between Dublin and York, or between Cork and Cornwall, there was not equal justice— the only basis of union. Ireland gained little but an enormous national debt by her legislative connection with England, and while :he and Scotland had only to support the Church of the people, Ireland was saddled with an alien Establishment. There was then no union between the countries. Ireland, too, was deprived of municipalities, which were granted to the rest of the empire. He cared not what sanctimonious pretext they might raise, whether the Duke of Wellington's piety or Toryism suggested that Ireland was to be treated like a step child. The Duke of Wellington would make us all Protes tants, and the way he sought to do it was by making his Pro testantism the pretence for injustice. He would now show that there was an inequality in th e f ranc hi se b etween t h e morecw could ut gross d r odssi there fftehr aebnnet then proportionsidentity inequality lbetweeno o f f j representationu sti people ce Could who countries,were anythinglre and ahteed We :had 105 Members, two of which were g i ven to theUni versity7 of Dublin by the: Reform Bill, an d 1 03 to t h e w h o le country 1 The population of Ireland was one - t hi r d o f the whole empire, and she should have a thi r d o f t h e _ num b er of Members. Taking the lowest calculation of the property, even that made by Castlereagh at the Union, Ireland should have 168, but he offered to take 150 Members, and till that number was granted, we would not be treated with equality. Wales had twenty-eight Members, and Ireland but one hundred and five. But he admitted that he cared less for the number of representatives than an extension of the franchise, with which Ireland would elect such a 105 as would be worth 200. In England they had the 40s. freehold to this day ; and till Ireland had a Si. freehold, there would be no equality. It was called a' tenure where there was no equality of justice ; but he who would say, with a limited number of Representa tives, and an inadequate franchise, that there was a tenure, he ( Mr. O'Connell), would despise. He then came back to Election Committees, which were another grievance. George Frederick Young's Committee decided that rent did not mean rent but tax, in the case of the pipe-water rent, though the man that paid for water got value for his money, which could scarcely be said of any municipal tax. He was always in the habit of calling things by their right names, and he was not much afraid of being reprimanded in that assembly for telling the truth. The House of Commons might have sent him, if they had courage, to the Tower ; but he would have proclaimed truth from the iron bars. He would then say there was, between these countries in truth no union.—( Cheers.) He was making an experiment, and he still had hopes that it would end satisfactorily. His reasons were, that he saw at home Lord Mulgrave administering justice fairly, while bigotry was no longer useful towards promotion. if he con tinued much longer, there would be no use in " brewestering" it to a jury with the hope of ascending the Bench.—( Loud cheers.) For the first time since our connection with Great Britain a whole circuit had gone over, and one man only has perished on the scaffold. And if there happens such a horrid assasination as that of Cooper to occur, Lord Mulgrave is not to be blamed for it. But great as that crime was, the meet ing of Magistrates exulting at it, and the joyfulness of Lord Donoughmore writing to his friend Glenelg in triumph that another crime had been committed, was more. But though it had, nothing will be neglected to detect the perpetrators. But there was another individual of whom they should not:speak in the mere idle terms of praise. He meant the illustrious and highly-gifted creature that filled the throne, he trusted for the benefit of all her subjects. Her endeavours and inclinations would not be flitting, its effects would not pass away as the flash of lightning, leaving a greater darkness behind it : that natural disposition, which in others of her family was obstinacy, in her would be perseverance. One of the boasts of Elizabeth (how could he mention that horrid woman in the same speech with Queen Victoria) wait the Pacta Hibernia, but her Paeta Hibernia was a desert, a solitude—nbi solitudinem faciunt patent appellant. Ireland in the reign of Queen Victoria would not be pacified in that manner. They were not to look to the people of England, however, to give them their rights, but themselves. There was the Poor-law ; he meant to move an adjournment to next day, when he would submit his views on this question. There was Municipal Reform : did they think the Lords would let that pass? No; but he would tell them how they could force them to consent to it. He would move that there should be simultaneous meetings all over Ireland to petition the Queen. But in talking of simul taneous meetings he did not mean that there should be any secret societies. Thank God, by the exertions of the poli ce the Welters had been in a great measure prevented from con tinuing their misdeeds. But being driven from the cities they had gone to the country. Only the other day a man had been detected in Navan with proclamations which were to be dis semineted through the north, calling on the people to rise up like the Canadians ; this man was detected by a priest. No, he did not desire that anything should be done by force, nor were they to go so far as the English Radicals (for calling whom Tory-Radicals he had been blamed in that room). Did they not see during the last election that anti-Irish spirit breaking out and spreading through the land so as to take away from him any hopes of acheiving anything save by them selves : " Hereditary bondsmen, know you not, Who would be free themselves should strike the blow." Well, let them see how the registration, the instrument in their hands was being used. When the General Association ex isted they had means of working, and they were gaining on their enemies. The Government wished that body to be dis solved ; he acceeded to their wish, and the consequence was that with few exceptions, they were losing ground in the registry. Jea lousy was the cause of this. He had a plan which would reverse it. He had, and he would submit it to a Committee. He meant to move that a central board of registration, which should have the superintendence of all the registries. Dublin was better off than other places. 2,700 notices were served— should he say by his staff? It was true the Corporation were making fictitious freemen. They would not act thus, but that -they knew that there could not be got a Grand Jury to find bills rgainst them for a conspiracy. But ho would not submit to injustice, and before the end of that week he would apply to the Queen's Bench for a quo warranto. He would take up then freemen by birth, expose their bri bery, and he was mistaken if he would not make out a strong case against them. If his plan succeeded the registra tion would go on well. First they should get a subscription. He had three sons in Parliament—he would subscribe 101. for himself, and 51. for each of them. All the other liberal Irish Members will also subscribe equally, and they would soon have a fund large enough. He alluded then to the question of the immediate abolition of slavery, of which he was always the consistent advocate. He had thus shown that there was no union between England and Ireland—that in the fran chise, the representation, the religion, the municipal rights, there was essential difference. He had shown that there was only a parchment union, in which he would never acquiesce if they were not put on full equality with the people of England. He has shown them that they were losing ground in the regis try ; he therefore moved that a Central Board of Registration subject to such rules, and acting on such modes as might be determined at a future meeting. Mr. SETON seconded the resolution ; it was adopted. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that a Committee of 11 should be appointed to consider his proposition. Mr. M'NEvsN seconded the motion. It was carried una nimously. Mr. ROACH addressed the meeting at considerable length. Mr. O'CONNELL moved that the meeting should adjourn on its rising till three o'clock next day. Mr. WALsit addressed the meeting, Mr. Guthrie was moved to the Chair, and the meeting se parated. Mr. Maurice O'Connell is to be entertained at a public dinner in Tralee next week. It is reported that the Bishop of Meath is dead. A Bench warrant has been granted against Captain Vig noles, at Carlow Sessions, for assault. The Southern Reporter states that Lord Bandon is driving out large numbers of his Catholic tenantry, though before Parliament he declared he would not do so. Yesterday morning, about half-past' nine o'clock, a very aged woman, named Plumer, was crossing Regent-street, near the end of Conduit -street, when she was run dow n by a hackney-coach, the wheel passing over her waist. Sae was removed to St. George's Hospital. THE DORCHESTER LABOURERS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sir—ln the Report you gave yesterday of what I said on Monday at the Dorchester Festival, there is an omission at the commencement that I shall feel obliged by your allowing me to supply—" Having been prosecuted, and having had the honour of being served with an Exchequer Writ, for having published an unstamped Newspaper, he rejoiced for having done." Now, Sir, at the period referred to, I was an inmate of the Giltspur-street Compter, sentenced to three months imprisonment for publishing without a stamp—just then " The Dorchester Labourers" were tried, I published the trial, and was immediately served in the prison with an Exchequer Writ—for " printing, publishing," &c., the very number of the Police Gazelle, containing the proceedings at Dorchester; this will in some measure account for the strong sympathy I have felt with my friends from Tolpuddle. Thanking you most heartily for your report and remarks on Monday's proceedings—l am, Sir, Your obliged obedient Servant, • JOHN CLEAVE. 1, Shoe-lane, Fleet-street, April 18, 1828. PARISH ELECTIONS. ST. MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS. The polling for churchwardens in this parish commenced yesterday, and will be continued this day and Thursday. At the close of this day's poll the numbers stood—Cuff, 655; Staunton, 523; Tories. Simpson, 555, Reformer. ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR, SOUTHWARK. Yesterday a public vestry of the rate-payers of this parish was convened in the vestry-room, for the election of church wardens, overseers, and other parish-officers. Shortly after twelve o'clock the Rector, the Rev. Mr. Horton, entered the room, and took possession of the chair. The meeting exhibited great dissatisfaction at this proceeding, which was greatly increased when the Rev. Chairman named Mr. Ro• berts as rector's warden for the ensuing year. After a long and confused discussion, in which Mr. Arrow smith took the most prominent part, the question concerning sidesmen terminated in the relinquishment by the rector's warden of his right of nomination. Mr. HENRY HOOLE was then proposed as rector's warden for the ensuing year amid loud cheers. The RECTOR declared the show of hands to be in his favour. Mr. REDFORD proposed Mr. George Gillum as puisno warden for the ensuing year.—( Cheers. ) Mr. PULTNEY proposed Mr. Gainsborough for the office of puisno warden. The show of hands having been declared in favour of Mr. Gillum, a poll was demanded, which will take place on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday next, between nine and four o'clock. The Overseers, Commissioners of Requests, and other officers, having been appointed, the Vestry sepa rated. ST. MARY'S, LAMBETH. (Concluded from yesterday's Sun.) The Overseers, Surveyors of Highways, and all the other parochial officers were elected by large majorities from amongst the liberal ranks, Mr. Grady, Mr. Fall, and other gentlemen pledging themselves that the proceedings of the Board of Guardians should be open to the public, and that all the ac counts should once in each year be audited in open vestry. ISLINGTON. Yesterday a vestry meeting was held in the Church of the above parish, for the election of officers for the ensuing year. Mr. Nicholls, Churchwarden, in the chair. The minutes of the last ♦estry were read and confirmed. Messrs. Blanchard, Bewdley, and Hardy were unanimously elected Churchwar dens for the ensuing year. The remaining business having been disposed of, thanks were voted to the Churchwarden, after which the vestry adjourned. ST. SAVIOUR, SOUTHWARK. Yesterday a vestry of this parish was held to elect Church wardens and Commissioners of the Court of Requests for the year ensuing. Mr. SMITH, Vestry-clerk, said that the first duty of that vestry was to elect Wardens, and that Messrs. John Warden and Jenkin Jones were proposed to fill the office of Warden of the great account. The show ofh;nds appearing in favour of Mr. Raymond, a poll was domanded on behalf of Mr. Jones, which will take place on Th urs d a y an d Friday next , f rom ten t i ll four o ' clock. Messrs. Whit e , Wells, Richa r d s , J ac k son, and Benbow we re elected to the several offices of Rooters' Warden, College Warden, Bell Warden, &c. The other parish officers having . been chosen, the vestry adjourned. ST. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH. The parishioners assembled ♦ery numerously in the vestry the meeting being afterwards adjourned to the body of the church, for the purpose of choosing churchwardens and com missioners of the Court of Requests for the ensuing year. Mr. Thomas Reece was elected senior churchwarden without opposition. Mr. GRAPPLE moved that Mr. Nicholson be elected junior churchwarden. Mr. SOLONIONS proposed Mr. Rudland for that office. Mr. PEARCE nominated Mr. Austin. Mr. Rudland, brush manufacturer, High-street, Shore ditch, was appointed junior churchwarden. Thanks were then passed to the late overseers, and commis sioners of the Court of Requests were chosen. PARISH OF HACKNEY. The inhabitants of Hackney met yesterday to elect the usual parochial officers. For the office of churchwarden Me=srs. Robertson and Nelme were elected without opposition. Mr. C. H. Pulley, who has filled the office many years, was re-appointed vestry-clerk. ST. PAUL, COVENT-GARDEN. A vestry meeting of the inhabitants of St. Paul, Covent garden, was held yesterday in the vestry-room, for the election of a churchwarden and the appointment of other officers for the year ensuing. Mr. CRIBS proposed that Mr. Ward be chosen the parish ioners' warden for year ensuing. „ There being no opposition, Mr. Ward was elected unani mously. Mr. Clark was appointed the rector's warden for the year ensuing ; and the other officers having been chosen without opposition, the vestry adjourned. - - SAINT JAMES'S, CLERKENWELL. The annual career of agitation commenced yesterday in this parish, at a vestry held for the purpose of choosing church wardens, a vestry clerk, overseer, and assistants, sidesmen, beadles, and other officers, for the next year, and also to raise a sum for the relief of the poor for the same period. Larard—( Cries of " The Mr. SEWELL proposed Mr. J. W. Croplcy, the present u n r r . c P h A u li r under-churchwarden, w w a o r d u e d n p , r a o s p ose r . upper-churchwardeniosimicaphysoworThompson, dte frors solicitor,prf spoke k r . ee : e h mna e tsui e or n uen s i judei under churchwarden. or g i. year. Mr. ROBERTS proposed a man in whose favour he could protracted disewsion a show of hands was taken, ) for Cropley and Larard ; but the friends s e c Iva a h onuyl U de l NAurnitCtfrlththt.icayrfyarniaoAr . principle a d p s j e ro no him. tr. nothing—(Laughter)—for y r ai e o : s n e o d r nominated e of Hayward and Thompson demanded a poll, which will take place on Friday, Saturday, and Monday. Mr. Selby was re elected vestry-clerk, after a slight opposition. The salary is only 201., but he has 3001. a l so as clerk to the B oar d of Guardians. Four sidesmen will also be polled for. Mr. Sawn'„ the new overseer, moved for 21,000/. for the poor for next year. On the motion of Mr. THOMPSON, this quest i on was refer red to a Committee of Inquiry ; and, after a hot debate, the vestry adjourned. ST. LUKE, CHELSEA. Yesterday a public meeting of the rate-payers of this parish took took place in the v estry-room of th e N ew C hurch, for the purpose of electing churchwardens, sides men , an d other paro chial officers for the year ensuing, the Rev. C HARLES KINGS. LET, the Rector, presided ex officio, and appointed Mr. Rud lin, of Smith -street, to be the Rector' s W ar de n f or the en suing ya r.—( Chers. ) Mr. GREENWAY proposed that Mr. Crabb, of Sloane -street, be the churchwarden of the parish for the following year. The CHAIRMAN then asked if there was any amendment to the name of Mr. Crabb ? A PARISHIONER begged to propose Mr. John Maynard. The CHAIRMAN submitted first the amendment for the ap proval of the meeting, which was negatived by a large majo rity ; and subsequently the original motion, which, of course, was carried. Messrs. Mitchell, of Sloane-terrace, and Body, of Church-street, were then elected sidesmen. Messrs. Cross, floulden, Knight, M'Quoid, and Faulkner, were appointed to supply the vacancies in the list of church trustees. Messrs. Frampton, Jeffries, and Vincent were next appointed auditors of the church trustees' accounts. Mr. W. Cornell was re elected yestry-clerk, and some other business having been transacted the meeting separated. COAL MONOPOLY.—The coal controversy in the publ London still go es on , apparently for t h e purpose o f deludingic, as no answer is attempted to be given to our question why 700 car goes o f coa l s rem ained in the Thames during the l ate frost, actually unsaleable, w hil st t h e coal merchants were retailing coals at 50s. a ton? These cargoes belonged to the northern coalowners and the shipowners, and have since bee n so ld at 18s. to 255. a ton . S u rely it would have suited both the proprietors of the coals and the public, if the coals had been sold when most wanted. We are con vinced the consumers can never have cheap and good coals until they are supplied direct from the north. The public ought to combine and not purchase any coals offered for sale on the Coal Ihchang e . Th e c oal producing and consuming Company now advertised bids fair not only to benefit its sub scribers, bu t to destroy o n e of the most infamous monopolies that ever existed —we mean as respects the system in London, l i n now a sw th i e ndling practice, manner, if it becausere disposed someped where all th e abuse really prevails. A public Company, whose book s would be liable to the inspection of a numerous body of sub scr ib ers, could not manage such a plan of m i xing the best and worst coa l s t oge th er , an d se lli n g the whole for liest, as i business scribers wo u ld resist any attempt of the kind, The magni tude of the concern wou l d be a security against fraud.—Hull were of fo its cond su u b c : t Observer. A duel was fought on Tuesday, near Mallow, by Mr. H —s and Mr. C n. Three shots were expended without effect. The former combatant was principal in an other affair near Cork during the Assizes, on which occasion he fired two shots, one ball passed then through the lappel of his antagonist's coat, the other through his hat.—Cork Con stitution. --" DINNER at LEEDS. CONSERVATi v Since the period it was publicly announced `'"!; Burdett and other distinguished individuals had accepted invitation to attend the anniversary dinner of the Leeds Ope rative Conservative Association the demand for tickets has been so great that no public building in Leeds could be found sufficiently large to accommodate the persons anxious to be present. A magnificent pavilion had, therefore, been erected at considerable cost for the purpose. The building presented a Grecian exterior, having the entrance fronting to the east. Within the portico was a spacious hall, leading on the left to the gentlemen's room, adjoining the saloon, and the ladies' cloak room, communicating with the gallery. On the right of the entrance ball was the receivers' room for tickets, waiters' apartments, bar, scullery, pantries, wine store, capable of holding four pipes of wine in bottles, and other conve niences for the attendants. The saloon, which was 120 feet long by 80 feet broad, contained nine rows of dining tables, placed lengthways, the side tables gradually raised from the centre ; and all these were covered with light blue. At the west end was the cross table, standing on a platform, raised three feet above the centre of the saloon. This table was covered with pink, and was appropriated to the accommo dation of forty of the principal guests. The President's chair, an ornamental one, was placed in the centre of this table. At the east end was the gallery over the ladies' and gentlemen's rooms, &c., which comfortably accommodated 500 ladies. The festival took place on Monday last. Sir Francis Burdett and Sir George Sinclair have been staying at Kirkstall Grange, the seat of William Beckett, Esq. ; Lord Maidstone has been the guest of the Earl of Mexborough. The dinner was an nounced to take place at five o'clock, but it was considerably after that time before the whole of the company had assembled. About twelve hundred persons sat down to it, among whom were—W. Beckett, Esq., of Kirkstall Grange (Chairman) ; Lord Wharncliffe, the Earl of Mexborough, Sir Francis Bur nett, M. P. ; Viscount Maidstone, M. P. ; Sir George Sin clair, M. P. ; Hon. E. Lascelles, W. Busfield, Esq., M. P. ; Colonel Wallace, the Vicar of Leeds, T. H. Lowther, Esq., M. P. ; Hon. Philip Saville, R. Hall, Esq. ; Alderman Hall, W. Roby, Esq., &c. &c. &c. After the cloth was removed the ladies were introduced. A gallery immediately opposite the Chairman, at the extre mity of the Pavilion, was appropriated to them. They were loudly cheered upon entering. The first toast proposed by the Chairman was " The Queen."—( Loud cheers. ) Song " God save the Queen," the whole company joining in chorus. The lines " Scatter her enemies, confound their politics, frustrate their knavish tricks," were loudly cheered. The next toast was, " The Queen Dowager and the Royal Family."—( Great cheering.) The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the next toast, said that whether they looked to the duration of their glorious Consti tution, or whether they considered the blessings and benefits it conferred, they never could forget that it was bound up in strict alliance and mutual defence with our national establish ment of the Church. He hoped that that union might long be preserved to them. Sir GEORGE SINCLAIR replied to the toast. He ascribed the cordial reception he had met with to a knowledge of the cordial friendship which had for so many years subsisted with out alloy or interruption between himself and his revered friend ( Sir F. Burdett)—(Cheers)—whom all present vene rated and adMired as the most unflinching, the most chivalrous, and the most disinterested patriot. Gentlemen, proceeded the Honourable Speaker, I have been called upon to address you upon a toast of which it is impossible to overrate either the solemnity or the importance. It is one to which my re spected friend the Chairman has already done ample justice, when he represented the connection between Church and State as the basis upon which our polity and our happiness may be said to rest. It is the less necessary to dwell upon this subject at any length in your presence, when I consider you are met here to testify your adherence to the Conserva tive principles of which they form the elements and the basis; for what do those Conservative principles involve but these— reverence to the Church, attachment to the Throne, and a de termination to maintain unimpaired the rights and privileges of all orders and classes in this great nation?—( Cheers.) And, Gentlemen, is it in England alone that I would expatiate upon the blessings of the connexion of the State with our national Establishment ? Surely not —(Cheers)—and least of all would it be necessary in Leeds, the place where you ex perience from week to week, from day to day, the manifold and distinguishing advantages which arise from it.—( Hear.) Let me ask, for one moment, what would be the consequence if the Establishment was swept away ?—( Hear, he'ar.) Would you like to see your Clergymen placed upon the same footing as Dissenting Ministers even of the most eminent character are placed ? How often are they obliged to accommodate themselves to the inclination and caprice of their hearers ? We have already tried the experiment of encroaching upon the re venues of the Church. We tried it at the period of the Re formation ; and what has the country gained ? I would ask whether the best use has been made of the property of which the Church was robbed ?—( Hear.) Without meaning anything invidious, I would as k w h e th er t h e D u k es o f B e df or d have done more good than the Archbishops of Canterbury?—(Cheers.) I consider the Church of England to be in two senses the Church of the poor. In the first place, it is the Church from which the poor derive instruction ; and, in the next place, it is the Church to the honours and advantages of which the children of the humblest may aspire.—( Loud cheers.) The Hon. Baronet then adverted to a charge made by the Leeds Mercury that the principal guests at this meeting were political rats, and replied that they would not be deterred from a course which they deemed honest by all the "rats'-Baines"in Leeds. The " Army and Navy" was the next toast proposed. Colonel WALLACE returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN in proposing the next toast said, that it had been alleged that the House of Lord; were occupied only in supporting their own privileges and in defending their own rights ; but could they have a better proof of the fallacy of such statements than in the example /of the Noble Lord who was then present? The Peels had the happiness of the whole people at heart, and it was to secure that happi ness that they exercised those privileges with which they were so justly invested. Lord WHARNCLIFFE returned thanks. It had been the con stant endeavour of those who had bece opposed to them.in po litics to represent the House of Lords as enemies to the peo ple. He appealed to the history of the country, to all present, whether the House of Lords had not been the firmest sup porters of the liberties of the people ?—( Loud cheers.) They had not flinched from their duties, though they had been as sailed with the cry of " Down with the House of Lords." He was happy to say that that cry was now passed by, and he believed that the conduct of the House of Lords stood in higher estimation than it did before,—( Cheers.) The fault found with them had been, that they had resisted the march of democracy.—( Hear, hear.) It was their duty to do so. They had said to the people, so long as they were a House of Peers, they would resist encroachment upon the Consti tution at all hazards.—(Cheers.) It was said that we had a liberal Government, which had the support of the people, and that the Lords were wrong in pursuing a course adverse to them. He would examine what there was in the course in which the Government were following, to show whether the Lords should have confidence in them. They had made an absolute surrender of one of the first principles upon which their Government was founded. It was framed on a corn pact between the enemies of the Church of Irelarrd and them selves, by which they agreed to surrender to those enemies part of the revenues of that Church.—( Hear, hear, hear.) Had the other measures of the Government tended to remove suspicion, and to give confidence to the Lords? They had from year to year attempted to apply the revenues of the Church to other purposes than those of the Church ; but the Lords had refused it ; and this year they had been told they were to have a plan laid before them by the very men who had declared they would not allow the Church to live. He would now call attention to the situation in which we were placed with regard to Ireland. In the last Parliament the Govern ment was supported by a majority of the representatives of England and Scotland, and the last election had shown that the Protestant Church was popular in England and Scotland, as there was a considerable majority against them in the new Parliament. But, on the other hand, there was majority of Irish Members, obtained by the influence—he would say it there--of the Priests and the power of one man.—( Hear, hear.) He desired that they would not conceal it from them selves that their own representatives were not willing to de stroy the Church. Look at the Committees of the House of Commons. See bow on every occasion they had united, in order to prevent inquiry. The Irish Members complained that they had been charged with perjury in voting for those mea sures which affected the Church. He Mould not say that he did not think that many of them voted conscientiously, but there were among them men who were giving their votes, though they had taken an oath not to use their influence to subvert the Protestant religion while they were declaring that their object was the destruction of the Church.—( Hear.) The next toast proposed by the Chairman was " The Duke of Wellington," which was received with loud and continued cheering. C The IiAIRDIAN then said that he had the honour of pro posing, as the next toast, the health of that champion of their liberties—that intrepid patriot, who, throughout a long politi cal life, had ever been guided by the dictates of an honest and conscientious mind, and his own pure and benevolent feelings— " Sir Francis Burdett." This toast was received in the most enthusiastic manner by the meeting, and the cheering lasted for several minutes. A new song, entitled " A health to Burdett," was sung by Mr. Walton. Sir F. BURDETT then stood forward. Ile said he firmly believed, and therefore did not flatter himself falsely, that the general feeling, sentiments, and sense of the people of Eng laud confirmed the line of conduct which he had at all hazards pursued ; and brought to his heart the comfortable reflection, that all he had attempted to do, whether successful or not, had not been attempted in vain, and that the estimation in which he thought he stcod in the eyes of his countrymen had not by that conduct been in any way diminished. But although he regarded the approbation of his fellow-subjects as one of his best possessions, and which had been attacked by misrepre sentation and clamour, he must confess lie had a still higher motive in his breast ; though he had a great regard and esteem for his countrymen, there was a higher arbiter ; and if these two came in contact the one with the other, that other high arbiter he must not reject, for " honour was a principle that is sole judge and umpire for self."—(Cheers.) It was not in these enlightened, days. when history was become almost common to the most ordinary persons, who had any industry, or desire for insti uction, or to seek after truth ; it was not now only for the enlightened por tion of the people to know that a man might be a great man though he had fallen, by whatsoever calumny and prejudices he was assailed. lie was satisfied that the miserable abuse and calumnies poured upon him by, lie would not say a cor rupt, but, he would assert, by a factious, Press, were poured upon him upon the mere suggestions of ignorance or preju-, dice. but which had not the slightest influence on him. It was Like the idle wind, which I regard not." 'lf he was proud of any circumitance besides the good opinion of his country. men, it was that of having found that, notwithstanding all sorts of misrepresentations; he still retained their good opinion. his Hon. Friend (Sir G. Sinclair) had adverted to what was intencie,d for a joke to the people of England in the Leeds Mercury. He :lever heard of the paper before, and he must say that, if it was an attempt at a joke, it was a miserable one. The Mercury called the building in which they were assembled " a rat-trap." There were two sorts of rats. His Hon. Friend had alluded to Sir James Graham and Lord Stanley as having been counted as rats. We were told tifat it was an instinct in rats to run from a falling house. Th 0613 two gentlemen gave up all that might be considered desirable-- power, emolument, and everything that was an object for ho nourable ambition, and desirable to a man who wished to serves his country—because they could not conscientiously consentt to adopt certain measures. They might be Conservative• rats, but he would venture to predict, without pretending to the spirit of prophecy, that the country would never find any rats of that description.—( Laughter and cheers.) Maugre the weak and imbecile directors of a weak and imbe cile Government—maugre the unnatural connection of Popery with Protestantism, and all that both could scrape together c what were called Radicals—though he bad more respect for the Radicals than he had for the Whigs, or for Popish Priest; and their great agitator Mr. Daniel O'Connell—the Conserva tives would proceed. When he was a Reformer—when he thought it a monstrous abuse that any person should be sent into the House of Commons on the nomination of persons—when be thought the English Constitution gave to the people in a body their portion in the Legislature, and was anxious to clear that Constitution from what he supposed to be its greatest imper fections—that was called Radicalism. He was called a Radi cal because he was for extirpating what he thought radical abuses in the foundation of Government itself ; but he owned th t there were always arguments which staggered him on that point, because, after all, the persons who had the nomination of those who were to vote, however theoretically it was opposed to the principles of this great republic, they had no prominent interest of their own in view , but only that of the public at large, and thus adding to the great weight of the peopite them selves as the foundation of the whole ; therefore, he said, now see the magnificent structure of a political edifice, the witeintn of which was never before seen in any country ; and whether in this country it might be owing, as historians concluded, to a little short of accident, which he would rather call Provi dence, it was owing to the sense, understanding, courage, and wisdom of our forefathers never outstepping the lines of reason and common sense, by refusing human rights, founded upon just reason. We were now in such a state of society that the poor would be glad to return to the old system, and be released from their present condition of partial security. His Hon. Friend had most ably stated the great importance of the Na ti d ioia ip lsCuttie or urc argument and placed ; butcedit he on a ground which admitted of no (Sir F. Burdett) would place it in another point of view. The Church of England was essen tially the Church of the people. Its weaNi, influence, and zeal were devoted to their uses. When he spoke of the people he did not speak of all individuals, but particularly of those classes of society, the operatives, who had done him the honour, and a greater he could not have, of inviting him upon that great occasion. He said it was in vain for a miserable, wretched, and selfish Ministry, though backed by impudent paid patriots and Popish priests, to think of subverting or shaking the Church if the people had the courage to do their duty to their glorious Protestant institutions.—(Cheers.) He would take another view of the subject, and speak to the very hum blest of Englishmen. The wealth of the Church of Eng land was the wealth of the people ; the honest man, in the humblest station, was benefitted by the benevolence of our forefathers, and was grateful to them for leaving establishments for the education of the poor. Sir Francis then recapitulated big advice relative to the defence of the Church, and bestowed some further remarks on Lord John Russell's policy. The present Ministry, he contended, had deserted the principles of the Whigs, for no old Whig would ever have consented to disturb the foundation of the Church. He then sat down amidst the most enthusiastic cheering. The CHAIRMAN next proposed " The health of Viscount Maidstone.—( Loud cheers.) Lord MAIDSTONE, in returning thanks, said that when he read Mr. O'Connell's speech in the public papers, ho thought the language so gross, so ungentlemanly, and so insulting, that even if he had stood alone he would not have suffered it to pass unnoticed, but would have got up and protested against it.—( Cheers.) Mr. O'Connell pretended to laugh at the censure he received, but he (Lord Maidstone) could see that he writhed under that conviction. A physician, when a pa tient came to him, felt his pulse. Mr. O'Connell's pulse was in his tail—(Laughter)—and the writhing and contortion of that tail showed pretty plainly the bad habit of body under which the patient laboured. When the opinion of the majo rity of the House of Commons condemned the conduct of Mr. O'Connell, the whole tail got up and spoke at once, and such a scene as he then witnessed he never wished to see again in the British House of Commons.—( Hear, hear.) He would now leave Mr. O'Connell for a person who sup ported him through thick and thin. Ho meant Lord John Russell, who bounced up as though the Treasury Bench had fallen from under him, and, instead of meeting the motion, said that if the Noble Viscount persisted in it, he should feel it his duty to bring forward a similar motion against another p .rty.l 'The present Ministry were inconsistent and incompe tent. The only point in which they were not vacillating was in their hatred to the Conservatives Look at their consistency now. They were about to despatch Lord Durham to Ca nada, giving him a caste blanche as regarded his expenses. See the mean shifts to which they were put to make up the money. To the Queen, whom they had always flattered, and to whoni they had pretended so much, they were about to give a cheap Coronation.—( Hear.) They bad reduced the yeomanry, in order to give the money to Lord Durham—to pay for the tea and sugar and the crockery of the Canadian Lycur,gus.—( Loud laughter end cheers.) It was lamenta ble to see the mean and pitiful shifts to which they had re course. He wished that meeting could see the way in which Sir Robert Peel managed them in the House of Commons— that they could see the look of scorn which he gave them, withering them on the Treasury benches, and regarding them rather in the light of culprits, whom it was his duty to exe .cute.—(Laughter and cheers.) He hoped the kindness ex tended to him that day would extend to the last hour that it might please God to enable him to make use of the humble talents he had given him to lend his aid to preserve the Con. stitution in Church and State, handed down from their an cestors, and now about to be pulled to pieces, though none have yet handed in a prospectus to build a better edifice upon its ruins.—( Loud cheers.) Several other toasts were drunk, and the meeting separated at a late hour. EAST LOTHIAN . ELECTION. On Saturday the election of a Member to serve in Parlia ment for the oounty of East Lothian, in the room of Lord Ramsay, now Earl of Dalhousie, took place at Haddington. No opposition being anticipated, little interest was excited. After the usual preliminaries had been gone through, and Sir T. B. Hepburn had been proposed and seconded, Sir DAVID BAIRD wished to know, before the election wag declared, whether Sir Thomas was prepared to give his con stituents any farther information regarding his political princi ples than was contained in his printed address ? Sir T. B.- HEPBURN asked the Sheriff whether Sir David Baird was entitled to stop the proceedings of the election by questions, and before another candidate was proposed. The SHERIFF said the election must undoubtedly proceed ; hut, at the same time, it was customary to allow any free holder to put to a candidate what questions he thought proper. Sir T. 13. HErnunN said, if it would avail any thing as re gart'ed this election, he would answer any questions ; but as it would not do so, unless another man was to be proposed, ho must decline to do sp. After the election he would answer ever• thing. Mr. Hors , : (of Fenton), said it depended on Sir Thomas's answers whether or not another candidate would be proposed. He wished to ask Sir Thomas if he would support a Bill for suppressing bribery, corruption, and intimidation, in the shape of a Bill for Vote by Ballot. Sir Thomas declined to answer the question, and no other candidate having been proposed, the Sheriff called for a show of hands ; after which he declared Sir Thomas Buchan Hep burn duly elected. Sir THOMAS then came forward and addressed the electors in a long speech ; at the conclusion of which Sir D. Baird addressed the audience. The Hon. Baronet retired amidst laud cheers. Sir T. B. HEPBURN then again presented himself to the meeting, whose patience he well nigh exhausted, and after at tempting once or twice unsuccessfully to obtain a further hear ing. he and his party left the hustings. The Sheriff also retired, and so did Sir David Baird and his friends. The crowd in front of the hustings then quietly dispersed. Sir Thomas afterwards underwent tke ceremony of being chaired through the streets of the town. EADVERTISENILNT,I-We have observed, in our paper, an Advertisement, calling into question the merits of the celebrated Amber Spectacles, which have always borne • the character of superiority, for defective vision, over every other kind hitherto employed; and have been so highly re commended for their preservative and assisting qualities, by men of the highest character and professional reputation. The names of Messrs. Dollond and Curtis being used, it is right that the public should be apprised of the ascertained fact, that it has owed its insertion, not to the sanction, or even know ledge of those gentlemen, but to the personal pique of inte rested individuals. EA DVERTISEMENT.j-TESTIMONIALS FROM SURGEON TYRRELL ON E. SOLOMONS' PATENT SPECTACLE,. I have tried with different persons (requiring the aid of concave or convex lenses) the Amber Spectacles manufactured by Mr. E. Solomons, 36, Old Bond-street, and find them to be superior to those of glass. The plain amber spectacles ap pear to modify bright and strong light better than the green, blue, or other coloured glasses in common use ; the concave and convex lenses formed of this material, possessing this pro perty of modifying light, are, in my opinion, much more ad. vantageous than lenses of the same power made from glass. FREDERICK TYRRELL, Surgeon to St. Thomas's hospital, and the London Ophthalmic Infirmary, Mcoifields." THE NELSON MONUMENT.—We hope that an. other week will not elapse before a Committee is established in these towns, to aid the truly national object of erecting a monument to the memory of the immortal Nelson. Several p-ovincial Committees have already been formed, and the pro. ject, wherever broached, has received the unanimous concur. rence of all classes. It will naturally be expected that Ply mouth, Devonport, and Stonchouse, with their' numerous naval and military residents, will not be behind hand in tes tifying their attachment to the memory of a hero whose deeds have no I,ss redounded to their honour and glory, than to the honour, glory, and advantage of their country.—Devonpore Telegraph.